Now do Those Crazy Golf Courses!

oooooooh yes I will! "safety theater," in my view, is more nefarious than "safety as afterthought" a 🧵 :)

happy Piccolo Day

Now I know an ITALIAN is not trying to claim they have a more established nation— www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmeri...

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

No nunes is good news!

i think the fact that we are STILL in the position that we, the democratic base, have to convince a bunch of recalcitrant senators to do things like ditch the filibuster, admit DC and PR (if they want it) as states, and, most importantly, reform SCOTUS, identifies all my problems with the party

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

🚨 U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump’s blockade for months. My latest with Warren Strobel and Ellen Nakashima wapo.st/4u52grO

I am going to post this and note in a non sequitur that the flags of the countries seem deeply similar to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal...

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

This is why those of us who belive in Open Borders would love to say "oh they just became citizens so there's nothing illegal" because you just know the real hate is "people who look different than me" not any law related issue.

Whew this is a great thread:

A coyote that turned up on Alcatraz was presumed to have swam over from San Francisco. But a DNA sample from the animal’s droppings showed it was from the much farther Angel Island. Park staff were prepared to trap and relocate the coyote but it is no longer on the island.

Since I can't comment on the duck (!) let me merely say The Aerie (old wardman Marriott site) gets about twenty helicopter flyovers per day. Lotsa fun!

Mothra! (because the shobijin)

A good thread:

I drove a non-Tesla for a week in Cali and whew it was exhausting. Why? 1. Rental staff didn't know the difference between NACS and CCs 2. Car didn't come with charger cable (too many were stolen apparently) 3. I am an idiot and didn't realize J17772 connectors could be used at non CCS places 4. UX

so this is not to call anybody out but it's something that I see a lot of people confusing: software being able to export as a specific file type is NOT the same as being *compatible* with another software. real compatibility has to go both ways, with ZERO change in the file, or else it's unviable

Worth reading the thread and seeing ALL the images:

Crushed to read the news that Tony Stella has passed, a truly phenomenal and prolific artist, one of my absolute favorites

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

Okay now let's do "Lincoln doesn't call up the draft before Ft Sumter and Virginia stays a Union State"... guessing the Civil War would have lasted less than two years. Plus no West Virginia!

Not new idea but if i were a dogooder with actual money concerned about media i would pick a dozen medium sized cities in swingy states and bring back local journalism.

This is the sort of "yeah we all learned this a few years ago" that large swaths of The Interwebs let alone The American Public - have not internalized. Did you know less than 1% of people exposed to horrific events develop PTSD? In many ways similar to ignorance of Dunning-Kruger debunking.

A reminder www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

It is odd the evolution of "NIMBY" to mean purely "anti housing" when the original NIMBY canards were things like jails, homeless shelters and nuclear power plants. And now including solar and wind developments! All these "impact property values" but most of them are good things. Folks just

One of the more annoying things people in Washington (not dc; Washington) say all the time is that it’s “so dc” to ask “so what do you do” for a living; it is a real tell-on-yourself thing to still think as u mature, because what you’re saying is: *****I****** don’t care about your lame ass job

making DC a state with the 2029 trifecta has become a moral imperative, as well as a partisan advantage. millions of Americans have been held under military occupation with no recourse.

Philadelphia reported 39 murders through April which is the fewest reported there since 1963. New York City reported 75 murders through April 26 which is on track to be the fewest murders through April ever reported (previous low was 86 in 2018).

I am imagining a world in which developers go crazy building so many houses/apartments we end up with an oversupply like China and guess what THAT WOULD BE AMAZING FOR RENTERS.

Mercenaries are trash.

We called these "stealth rides" in college but they didn't include lights. And whew were they dangerous.

Josh makes many excellent points here: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-c...

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

definitely not the most important thing about Callais but it underlines the necessity of DC statehood if we want Black voters to have any representation whatsoever left in this country

It can’t be repeated enough that *the security cordon worked* and the venue was, in fact, capable of safely accommodating everyone there. Security at the WH would work exactly the same way with someone attempting to sprint through the outside perimeter.

Uh oh Trump is explaining percentages again...

So the Reichstag fire was actually the premise for the brand new Reichstag Ballroom!

Best summary I have seen so far:

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes tankies

I love that this is quote dunking on TCW who is an awful writer. (I am a subscriber to the Atlantic and love many of their other fine writers!) Oh, wait this is the *other* guy who wrote the *second* piece about grocery theft. 😶‍🌫️

I know it is lower on the data hierarchy but "bar/restaurant" is #2 for the first time here which involves a *very* different mentality than some of these other options.

Right now, Dems should be unanimously blasting out this message Top Republicans & Trump want to pardon pedophile ringleader/conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell as a payoff for her lies attempting to exonerate Trump Current acting AG sent her to Club Fed and now this. www.politico.com/live-updates...

I was on a six hour flight yesterday on a plane with broken wifi and started wondering what it would be like if It Happened while we were in the air and what the first indicators would be when everyone logged on upon landing. crazy notification pings? crying/hugging strangers in the aisles?

so uh slazac is exploring generating tumblr style infographics for political propaganda and

Almost every Sunday I listen to @c-span.bsky.social radiation which does every show. It is something I wish, more people did. It isn't cancerous it is illuminating about how DC views people!

Trump thinks it’s 1985